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Overview

Laudan Nooshin gained her BA in Music from the University of Leeds and her MMus in Ethnomusicology from Goldsmiths' College (University of London), where she also taught between 1987 and 1991. Her PhD (Goldsmiths' College, 1996) was a study of creative performance in Iranian classical music. Prior to joining City in 2004, she taught in the Department of Performing Arts at Brunel University, where she was Course Director for Music from 2001-2004.

A great believer in extending students' horizons, in June 2008 Laudan organised an educational trip to Iran for 6 students from the Music Department at City, funded by the City University Alumni Association. See pictures from the 2008 trip to Iran.

Research interests

Laudan Nooshin is an active researcher working in the broad fields of ethnomusicology and popular music studies, with a particular focus on the musics of Iran and the Middle East. Her research interests include:

- Creative processes in music, with particular reference to Iranian classical music- Music and power: globalisation, post/neo-colonialism, orientalism and the politics of representation- Contemporary developments in Iranian traditional and popular musics- Music and youth culture in Iran- Music and global media; digital cultures, with a particular focus on Iranian cyberspace- Music and migration; music and cultural identity; music and memory- Music and gender, with particular reference contemporary women musicians in Iran- Music in Iranian cinema- Urban ethnomusicology, with a focus on the intersection of ethnomusicology and urban sound studies- Iran and the Middle East in the Euro-American musical ‘imagination’- The ethnomusicology of Euro-American art music

Possible areas of research supervision

- Middle Eastern musics- Contemporary developments in Iranian music- Iranian popular musics- Music, power and ideology- Music and global media- Music and globalisation- Music and the politics of cultural representation- Ethnicity, identity and music- Music and gender- Music in Iranian cinema - Urban ethnomusicology- The ethnomusicology of Euro-American art music

Nooshin, L. (2009). Prelude: Power and the Play of Music. In Nooshin, L. (Ed.), Music and the play of power in the Middle East, North Africa and Central Asia (pp. 1–31). Ashgate Press. ISBN 978-0-7546-3457-7.

Nooshin, L. (2009). "Tomorrow is Ours": Re-imagining Nation, Performing Youth in the New Iranian Pop Music. In Nooshin, L. (Ed.), Music and the play of power in the Middle East, North Africa and Central Asia (pp. 245–268). Ashgate Press. ISBN 978-0-7546-3457-7.

Nooshin, L. (2008). 'Ethnomusicology, Alterity and Disciplinary Identity. Or "Do We Still Need an Ethno-?", "Do We Still Need an -Ology?" In Stobart, H. (Ed.), The new (ethno)musicologies (pp. 71–75). Scarecrow Press.

Nooshin, L. (2016). 'Sounding the City: Tehran's Contemporary Soundscapes'.Middle East and Central Asia Music Forum 13 May, Music Department, City, University of London.

Nooshin, L. (2016). 'Whose Alternative Public Space? Gender Dimensions of Music on the Internet in Iran'.British Forum for Ethnomusicology Annual Conference 14-17 April, University of Kent, School of Music and Fine Art.

Nooshin, L. (2016). '"Hide and Seek: The Internet as an Alternative Public Space for Iran’s "Hidden" Musicians'.The Hidden Musicians Revisited Conference 11-12 January, Music Department, The Open University.

Nooshin, L. (2015). ‘"Happiness is our People’s Right": Happy in Tehran and the Contesting of Social Boundaries’.Annual Conference of the Royal Musical Association 9-11 September, University of Birmingham.

Nooshin, L. (2015). ‘"Happiness is our People’s Right": Happy in Tehran and the Contesting of Social Boundaries’.Joint conference of the Société Française d’Ethnomusicologie and the British Forum for Ethnomusicology. 2-5 July, Musée du quai Branly, Paris..

Nooshin, L. (2015). ‘“Happiness is our People’s Right”: Happy in Tehran and Symbolic Spaces of (Whose?) Liberation’.Annual Conference of the British Society for Middle Eastern Studies. 24-26 June, London School of Economic and Political Science..

Nooshin, L. (2015). Keynote address: ‘Re-Imagining Musical Difference: Creative Process, Alterity and “Improvisation” in Iranian Music from Classical to Jazz’.‘The Art and Science of Improvisation’, Grieg Research School in Interdisciplinary Music Studies. 8-10 June, University of Bergen..

Nooshin, L. (2014). 'Classical Music and its Others: the View from Iran’.‘Classical Music, Critical Challenges’. 17 October, King’s College, University of London..

Nooshin, L. (2014). Re-Imagining Difference: Musical Analysis, Alterity and the Creative Process.Analysis, Cognition and Ethnomusicology’ Third International Conference on Analytical Approaches to World Music (AAWM 2014)/Annual Conference of the British Forum for Ethnomusicology (BFE 2014) 1-4 July, London.

Nooshin, L. (2014). KEYNOTE ADDRESS ‘Sites of Memory: Public Emotionality, Gender and Nationhood in the Music of Googoosh’.Popular Music and Gender in a Transnational Context. 3 June, Department of Musicology, University of Oslo..

Nooshin, L. (2014). ‘“Our Website is our Club”: Towards an Understanding of (Iranian) Cyberspace as an Alterative Public Sphere’.Royal Musical Association/British Forum for Ethnomusicology Study Day, ‘Music, Circulation, and the Public Sphere'. 11 April, University of Manchester..

Nooshin, L. (2014). ‘“A rose by any other name …”: Cultural Musicology’ and its Premises’.Premises, Practices and Prospects of Cultural Musicology’. 24-25 January, University of Amsterdam..

Nooshin, L. (2013). ‘Discourses of Religiosity in Post-1998 Iranian Popular Music’.Islam and Popular Culture. 8-9 March, Amsterdam (funded by the Netherlands Organization for Scientific Research).

Nooshin, L. (2012). BY INVITATION‘Beyond the Radif: New Forms of Improvisational Practice in Iranian Music’.Panel: 'Improvisation: Object of Study and Critical Paradigm', sponsored by the Society for Music Theory Improvisation Interest Group. Joint Annual Meeting of the Society for Ethnomusicology, the American Musicological Society and the Society for Music Theory. 1-4 November, New Orleans.

Nooshin, L. (2012). BY INVITATION‘Are Research Ethics Committees Ethical?’, presented as part of a roundtable on Research Ethics.British Forum for Ethnomusicology Graduate Conference, ‘Music and Movement’. 12-14 September, Institute of Musical Research, School of Advanced Study, University of London..

Nooshin, L. (2012). ‘Beyond the Radif: New Forms of Improvisational Practice in Iranian Music’.Perspectives on Musical Improvisation. 10-13 September, Faculty of Music, University of Oxford..

Nooshin, L. (2012). 'Beyond the Radif: New Forms of Improvisational Practice in Iranian Music'.Annual Conference of the British Forum for Ethnomusicology. 29 Mar 2012 – 1 Apr 2012, University of Durham..

Nooshin, L. (2012). ‘Community of Catharsis: Musical Mediations on the 2009 Iranian Presidential Elections’.Annual Conference of the British Society for Middle Eastern Studies 26-28 March, London School of Economics and Political Science.

Nooshin, L. (2011). ‘Music and the Negotiation of “Otherness” in Iranian Cinema: Bashu, Little stranger’.the Middle East and Central Asia Music Forum, Conference on Music in Middle Eastern Cinema 17-18 May, Institute of Musical Research, University of London.

Nooshin, L. (2011). ‘Community of Catharsis: Musical Mediations on the 2009 Iranian Presidential Elections’.Annual Conference of the British Forum for Ethnomusicology. 7-10 April, University College Falmouth.

Nooshin, L. (2011). KEYNOTE ADDRESS‘Community of Catharsis: Cyberspace as Field Site’.100 Years of Musicological Scholarship in Finland. Celebration Symposium. 15-18 March, University of Helsinki.

Nooshin, L. (2010). (by invitation, presentation as part of a roundtable) ‘How to Get Published’.Doing Ethnomusicology: Implications and Applications 20-22 September, Institute of Musical Research, University of London.

Nooshin, L. (2009). ‘“Green is the Colour …”: Musical Responses to the 2009 Iranian Presidential Elections’.Middle East and Central Asia Music forum, Institute of Musical Research. 6 November, City University London..

Nooshin, L. (2009). ‘Hip-hop Tehran: Putting Marginalised Voices on the Global Map’.Thirty Years On: The Social and Cultural Impacts of the Iranian Revolution. 5-6 June, School of Oriental and African Studies..

Nooshin, L. (2008). BY INVITATION‘“World Music” Performance in the UK Higher Education Curriculum’.Annual Conference of the National Association for Music in Higher Education. 6 May, University of Cumbria..

Nooshin, L. (2008). ‘Music and the Negotiation of “Otherness” in Iranian Cinema: Bashu, Little Stranger’.Annual Conference of the British Forum for Ethnomusicology April, University of Cardiff.

Nooshin, L. (2007). ‘Music and the Negotiation of “Otherness” in Iranian Cinema: Bashu, Little Stranger’.the Sound, Music and the Moving Image Conference, Institute of Musical Research September, University of London.

Nooshin, L. (2007). 'The Siren's Song: Embodiment and the Female Voice in Iranian Music’.39th World Conference of the International Council for Traditional Music. 4-11 July, University of Music and Performing Arts, Vienna.

Nooshin, L. (2007). ‘“We Have to Become Universal”: Internationalist Discourses and Language Choice in Contemporary Iranian Rock Music’.33rd Annual Conference of the British Forum for Ethnomusicology. 18-21 April, University of Newcastle.

Nooshin, L. (2006). ‘“We Have To Become Universal”: Internationalist Discourses and Language Choice in Contemporary Iranian Rock Music’.6th Biennial Conference on Iranian Studies. 3-5 August, School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London..

Nooshin, L. (2006). ‘“We Have To Become Universal”: Internationalist Discourses and Language Choice in Contemporary Iranian Rock Music’.the Sixth Biennial Conference on Iranian Studies August, School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London.

Nooshin, L. (2006). BY INVITATION‘Jazz and its Social Meanings in Iran: From Cultural Colonialism to the Universal’.World Jazz/Jazz Worlds Conference. 1-4 May, University of Chicago.

Nooshin, L. (2004). ‘“Tomorrow is Ours”: Re-imagining Nation, Performing Youth. Discourses of Empowerment in the New Iranian Pop’.Annual Conference of the British Society for Middle Eastern Studies. 7-10 July, School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London.

Nooshin, L. (2004). ‘“Tomorrow is Ours”: Re-imagining Nation, Performing Youth. Discourses of Empowerment in the New Iranian Pop’.the 2004 International Conference on Middle Eastern Studies July, (British Society for Middle Eastern Studies), School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London.

Nooshin, L. (2004). ‘Subversion and Counter-subversion: Power, Control and Meaning in the New Iranian Pop Music’.Annual Conference of the British Forum for Ethnomusicology. 15-17 April, University of Aberdeen.

Nooshin, L. (2003). ‘Articulations of Power in Iranian Pop Music: Subversion and Counter-subversion’.Annual Meeting of the Society for Ethnomusicology. 2-5 October, Miami.

Nooshin, L. (2003). ‘“Like a Thoroughbred”: Authority, Authenticity and Representations of the Past in Iranian Music’.29th Annual Conference of the British Forum for Ethnomusicology. 1-4 May, University of Bangor.

Nooshin, L. (2002). ‘Circumnavigation with a Difference? Music, Globalisation and the Disney Experience: It's a Small, Small World’.the 28th Annual Conference of the British Forum for Ethnomusicology April, University of Edinburgh.

Nooshin, L. (1999). ‘From Prayers at Dawn to Techno in the Park: Iran's Changing Soundscapes’.15th Annual Meeting of the European Seminar in Ethnomusicology. 12-15 November, School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London.

Nooshin, L. (1999). ‘Meaningful Sounds: Iranian Music and the Negotiation of Identity'.at the Triennial British Musicological Societies' Conference July, University of Surrey.

Nooshin, L. (1998). ‘Meaningful Sounds: Hearts, Minds and the Negotiation of Iranian Identity’.24th Annual Conference of the British Forum for Ethnomusicology. 27-29 March, University of Cambridge.

Nooshin, L. (1995). ‘From the "Natives'" Points of Views? The Unbearable Lightness of Analysis’.21st Annual Conference of the International Council for Traditional Music (UK) 7-9 April, University of Durham.

Nooshin, L. (1992). ‘Review of The Dastgah Concept in Persian Music by Hormoz Farhat (1990, Cambridge University Press)’.The Bulletin of the School of Oriental and African Studies, vol. LV(Part 2), pp. 338–340.

Keynote Speech: ‘Community of Catharsis: Cyberspace as Field Site'. University of Helsinki (2016). ‘100 Years of Musicological Scholarship in Finland.'100 Years of Musicological Scholarship in Finland. Celebration Symposium’, Joint conference of the Finnish Musicological Society and the Finnish Ethnomusicological Society, University of Helsinki, Finland.

‘Islam, Modernity and Nationhood: Music and the Play of Identities in Post-Revolutionary Iran’. Faculty of Music, University of Oxford, and the Oxford Centre for Islamic Studies (2004). talk presented as part of the Public Lecture Series Ethnomusicological Studies of Muslim Societies

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